Yalitza Aparicio Quotes

I had no idea how one became an actor. I didn't know things such as drama schools existed. It all just sort of happened accidentally.

I've always considered myself an actor first and foremost.

I didn't set out wanting to be an actress. That's not what I did. I didn't go to class striving to become an actress. I just basically - honestly, I didn't have anything else going.

I don't know if I see myself as an actress for the rest of my life.

I think by eighth grade I knew I wanted to be an actor. I'd done church plays and stuff, but my first actual acting class was in eighth grade. I was obsessed with it.

I suspect there isn't an actor alive who was able to truthfully answer his family's questions after his first day's activity in his future profession.

I knew absolutely nothing about acting, and had to be taught everything. Some people are born naturals and know how to walk, talk and hold themselves. I didn't and had to learn everything.

I think I was about 18 before I decided I wanted to pursue acting. I went to drama school in Western Australia when I was 19.

I know that I am one and I've made a living as an actor and I enjoy being an actor, but when I'm not actually doing it, I forget that I do it.

My dad teaches me. He teaches me everything. He's been acting for over 30 years, so he knows a lot.

I'm not entirely comfortable saying I'm an actor, because it seems like a very weird, almost dorky thing to say you are.

If you want to be an actor, you need to learn how to act first, even in sketch comedy.

I never went to drama school, but I did learn a couple of things along the way.

I'm just some commoner trying to work in acting.

I discovered that I wanted to be an actor back when I did my first play in junior high. I've been doing theater in junior high and high school, and I just kept feeding the fire, kept wanting to pursue acting full-on.

I've acted since I was 5 years old, so that's still something I want to do.

I want to be always actor.

If you want to grow up and do what I do for a living - be an actress - my advice to you is read as much as you can.

I learned how to act working in TV.

Since I was a child, I've been playing children. When I was little, I was the kid that you'd hire to do the reading or workshop of your new material.

I am lucky that I get to play a singer and an actress.

You have to have a lot of skills when you act; you might not have it when you start, but you definitely end up with a few skills along the way.

Understand that I had no concept of what being an actor was like when I was a kid - but I wanted to be an actor. Dressing up and being other people seemed like so much fun, but I didn't know what was involved.

I started quite late. I didn't know acting was a job.

Yeah, I've only been acting since I was 18 out of high school.